Hooded Peak (Night)

Posted on February 2, 2022

I wasn’t necessarily planning on doing a night version of this one because I wasn’t sure if lenticular clouds stayed around when the sun went down. Rather than worry about all that I decided to lean into their otherworldly aspect and also add some much needed illumination to the scene.

Strange things are definitely afoot on Hooded Peak 😁 . What do you think is going on here??

Hooded Peak (Twilight)

Posted on February 2, 2022

After posting “Hooded Peak” earlier this week I played around with a number of different lighting/atmosphere scenarios. The sense I got from the feedback was the day version was cool but maybe a bit too bright for a wallpaper. Hopefully this one is a bit easier on the eyes.

Members let me know what you think in the comments!!

Hooded Peak (Dusk)

Posted on February 2, 2022

Here’s a view of the Hooded Peak with the sun a bit lower in the sky. I’m still experimenting with this one of course and I might replace it later today with an updated render. The Pickle Jar isn’t quite ready on DB 2.0 so I will just post these in the main gallery for now.

Members please let me know what you think via the comments 🙏🏼

Hooded Peak

Posted on February 2, 2022

I’ve always been something of a cloud nerd, and have long been fascinated by lenticular clouds. They form over mountaintops (and other areas) and often look like huge flying saucers. I am fairly certain I’ve never seen them depicted in a 3D landscape render before now.

I used Houdini here to create the cloud object, Gaea to create the mountain, and the whole scene is rendered in VUE. Multiscreen versions are still rendering.

This is sort of an experimental scene and I will probably do another version or two before I’m satisified. Let me know what you think!

Father Light

Posted on February 2, 2022

Before moving on to a new project I decided to create a daytime version of “Mother Night“. The title is simple symmetry. I hope you enjoy it!!

I also played around with animating the nighttime scene over the past week. It’s always been tempting to animate these scenes but the night version rendered particularly quickly so I was able to do some experimentation. Are you guys even interested in animated wallpaper??